I don't know exactly what the goal of the course is, or where he's teaching, but... it seems like a really hard problem. Making working computer systems---lik

I don't know exactly what the goal of the course is, or where he's teaching, but... it seems like a really hard problem. Making working computer systems---like a drawing program, or an Amazon deploy---can be really hard, or really simple. You can teach someone enough Python for fizzbuzz in twenty minutes. Teaching them enough...everything...to get a web version of fizzbuzz, that checks a database for the words (it might be "nargle" and "gargle" by user preference, after all), with a Python install that they manage, a postgres install that they manage, that they don't feel at a complete loss about if something goes wrong, and to collaborate with others on this...is another matter entirely. I'm not one of those who believes programming ability is innate, but there are absolutely compounding effects that can certainly have basically the same effect. In retrospect, I thank my lucky stars for my 6th-grade computers class using HyperCard.